Pakistan

Aafia Siddiqui and WikiLeaks

They should refrain from carrying out any further protests and disrupting the lives of ordinary citizens.

April 27, 2011

JUBAIL, SAUDI ARABIA: Fresh revelations from WikiLeaks have confirmed what many rational-minded people have thought all along about Dr Aafia Siddiqui. However, for reasons better known to them, several Pakistani political and religious parties have long been protesting against the prison sentence handed down to Dr Siddiqui and, in doing so, have sought to incite the general public to acts of violence.

According to the WikiLeaks so-called ‘Guantanamo Files’, she plotted to smuggle explosives into America and also offered technical expertise to manufacture biological weapons. It is said that this information was provided by senior al Qaeda leaders but that this cannot be verified by independent sources.

However, the circumstantial evidence is enough to make any sensible person think that there must be some truth to these charges. Also, I would hope that those who have since long been vociferously pleading for Aafia’s innocence should now stop their shenanigans. They should refrain from carrying out any further protests and disrupting the lives of ordinary citizens.

Masood Khan

Published in The Express Tribune, April 28^th, 2011.

COMMENTS (5)

Mohammed | 13 years ago | Reply Aaafia is innocent and God will protect her!

Mirza | 13 years ago | Reply The Pakistani nation took the Lahore HC and then split decision of SC against ZAB, in a cool and calm manner. There has not been any serious hue and cry against that. In fact there are people still want to keep a lid on that decision. Pakistani HC and SC can hang an elected PM on the evidence of a govt witness, and three judges dissension against hanging. This same nation is crying foul about a questionable character Afia Siddiqi. If this is not double standards then what is? The same religious parties which were for hanging ZAB and with the SC decision, now do not accept govt witness's testimony. With the recent M. Mai decision we should be ashamed of demanding justice from the other country's military courts. Mirza, USA

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Viqar ul Haq | 13 years ago | Reply It is all high drama. The US Justice system can never sentence an innocent woman for 86 years. There must have been some solid evidence that made the case so high profile and the reason there is so much protest by the extremists. The general public should not get involved. They are cheap fodder for the extremists as can be seen by the suicide attacks on civillians.

Nadeem Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply Pakistanis shuld understand that if Dr. Aafia had been innocent, no Mullah would have come out to protest.

Mir Agha | 13 years ago | Reply It's POV/bias from US officials, wikileaks aren't fact. Surprised that people in Pakistan take them so seriously. Probably due to the lower IQ as demonstrated by this letter.

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